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There are currently no effective ways to hunt down submarines at >1000km range and won't for the foreseeable future, whereas surface vessels are already tracked live from space and vulnerable to increasing number of long range attack vectors. At a global scale and outside listening networks sub vs sub fights is still very much valid if not critical, whereas carrier vs carrier fights are extremely unlikely in the age of missiles that far outrange carrier strike range. This means for global dominance in the prescence of global prompt anti-ship strike SSN quantity ratio matter a lot more than carrier count.
China has also never went for parity in any industry be it steel or shipbuilding or automotives or light industry, and the capacity at Huludao shows that. It's easy to get into the trap of using US as a reference for maxium size, but given the size of Chinese industry USN could just be the starting point. Which gets back to what I original stated: 6 SSN per year is the baseline conservative estimate and it's being expanded.
Lastly the the concept of island chains is psychological and only applies in peacetime, they're adjancent to China and across the Pacific from CONUS, in any direct conflict between China and US those islands are Chinese and effectively China's eastern great wall.
proelite
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Fly her to China for red carpet treatment.
AssassinsMace
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Yes the US and West act like a mafia to the world. What Marco Rubio whines about aren't crimes. Bypassing the Western system isn't a crime. The US makes money just from others using the dollar. US farmers keep supporting Trump because they think he's going to force China to buy their agricultural products. Damn the US ideal of the customer is always right. As usual like with freedom, they only believe in their own freedom not anyone else's. And they want to be treated like heroes because they only believe in their own freedom. Everyone else... they want to rape aka no freedom. And you don't think Western entities aren't going to be using the BRICS system? The whole idea of cryptocurrencies in the West was to avoid their own banking institutions. Remember when the US accused China of holding their companies' money not letting them take it out of China. No, it was their corporations wanting to avoid it from being taxed by the US. Lying about China not letting them take their money out helped hide the truth so US companies could avoid scrutiny.
That is true but all over the world. Deceitful Western media has everybody convinced in someway on some issue. I've seen it on this forum too. I wrote about it previously: when you know, as Chinese, how much Western media has lied about China, how can you believe them about other global affairs? Same applies to everyone else, including Muslims who fall for the trap regarding other affairs; i.e. many of them have "concerns" about Uighurs (because the West said so) but have never heard of the Hui.
Hindu Indians do not have much history to be proud of, no real culture except one of distasteful misery, partly because they've been ruled by foreigners for the past 2000+ years.
Last 1000 years, before the British, India was under Islamic rule by foreign Afghan, Persian, Turkic and Mongols. Before Islam, it was still foreign Turkic rulers dominating the subcontinent. Hindu way of life does not inspire resistance or self-preservation. In the 20th century, the Muslims' resistance against the British erupted like a malignant tumor - the Hindus took inspiration from the Muslims to revolt against the British (even the resistance had to be borrowed from others).
When tourists think of India, they think of Taj Mahal or Agra (Turco-Mongol monuments), not Hindu temples. Hindus try to concoct a false history to be proud of but even they know the absurdity of it; a mighty India from Poland to Indonesia, developing from an ancient Hindu civilization in the Indus Valley (both of which are false) is their current narrative to develop an identity.
What the British did was the cherry on the cake: absolute enslavement. Couple hundred years the British ruled over half a billion people using a force not exceeding 65,000 people, half of which were non-combatants! How is that possible? British convinced the Indians that "white is right, white is might; if you are white, you will succeed, etc". Hindus, not having much of a culture, fell into the trap and never got out to this day. They do not have self respect nor any morals driving their identity or to inspire self-development. They will always be a product of foreign influence.
Non-Hindus are actually considered lower than Dalits, even if they are the rulers of India.
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"Russia, which chairs the BRICS group this year, has called on its partners to create an alternative to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to counter political pressure from Western nations ahead of the BRICS summit later this month.
BRICS, originally comprising Brazil, Russia, India, and China, has expanded to include South Africa, Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, the United Arab Emirates, and Saudi Arabia. Top BRICS finance and central bank officials are meeting in Moscow this week.
Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov, who is hosting the meeting, said the global financial system is controlled by Western countries and that the group, which represents 37% of the global economy, needs to create an alternative.
"The IMF and the World Bank are not performing their roles. They are not working in the interests of BRICS countries," Siluanov said at an event on the first day of the meeting."
BRICS, originally comprising Brazil, Russia, India, and China, has expanded to include South Africa, Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, the United Arab Emirates, and Saudi Arabia. Top BRICS finance and central bank officials are meeting in Moscow this week.
Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov, who is hosting the meeting, said the global financial system is controlled by Western countries and that the group, which represents 37% of the global economy, needs to create an alternative.
"The IMF and the World Bank are not performing their roles. They are not working in the interests of BRICS countries," Siluanov said at an event on the first day of the meeting."